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mmoa

X-MEN: First Class review

Jun 26, 2011 21:19

Spoilers ahead!

So, now having seen this film twice, I think it's safe to say I'm pretty secure in my impression of it. For the time being at least. I must be honest that after the first viewing, I was a bit confused, not quite knowing how I felt. This was - oddly enough - actually my initial reaction to 'District 9' and though the comparison ( Read more... )

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apiphile June 26 2011, 23:01:03 UTC

Yeah, these are pretty much my criticisms, except I have a really BIG one of Charles and his just mind-reading everyone whenever, constantly dismissing Raven, and basically acting like a big privileged douchebag and then TELLING A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR "I HAVE FELT YOUR PAIN". No, dude, you have not. You hav felt a memory of a memory of a suppressed memory. You do not know SHIT about suffering.

*raaaaaage*

mmoa June 26 2011, 23:38:46 UTC

You hav felt a memory of a memory of a suppressed memory. You do not know SHIT about suffering.

I think you and my sister would get get along completely because she pointed this out before I'd realised the implications. It's true - Charles thinks he knows people because he can read their minds, he thinks he knows exactly how they're feeling or what they felt. What he needed was a wake up call to show him that what he's getting are just impressions - he wouldn't be able to handle it if he was actually feeling what Eric was feeling at that moment. For one thing, he hasn't been formed by those experiences. He's just a parasite.

Whether he would have listened is another matter, but someone should have really chewed him up over it and that someone could only have been Eric. Instead we got that weird accident that he blames on Moira which allows Charles to become the real victim and thus escape the learning process that he actually needed.

apiphile June 27 2011, 23:03:24 UTC

yeah, that was something that's come up in a lot of conversations with my friends about this movie - a) he's skeevy for constantly stealing memories from people without their permission and b) for a telepath, he understands dangerously little about everyone, fro the guy he is SO CLEARLY IN LOVE WITH to his poor, poor sister.

yup. i was going to say "dodged that bullet" but that is (very literally) the opposite of what happened there.

underlankers June 27 2011, 16:21:56 UTC

I thought Neo's review had a lot of good points in it, though this also raises some good ones. I think that one thing that's never brought up is that if the USA reacts to mutants like it did to blacks, the Soviet Union, land of the KGB/NVKD would probably be sending mutants to the Gulag as threats to the worker's state. Telepaths in particular would be intended targets at best of brainwashing, at worst of winding up a body in a mass grave somewhere ( ... )